Record sheet holder for facilitating distribution of accounts



- Aug. 4, 1931. E. NEWMAN ET AL 1,817,640

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RECORD SHEET HOLDER FOR FACILITATING DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS FiledApril 50, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 I l I Weekly or Mon+hl y Dept. NetSales. Cost 2/ #25 ofjules and Net Profit 5 @-z/ W a Buoszf 32 1 |DEALmm: Sales Dept! Cost of Sales Profit A9 a 20 /9 20 Z6 /fi g6 29 V l 25"i -25 Weekly or Monihly Salesman N21 Sales, O 4 Ca5+ of Sales and Ne?Profif J6?- 1 V @-Z/@ i (5 Salesman l :Dafe Knnofo Ideal L ing 511185 P"can ofSales Prmrt' 9 7 L 4i J 4 *1 A j 5a|esman Weekly or Howrmy I Salesand C03? of 5 ales Salesman .Daflr fiales .Dopf. Casi of Sales l g-[7zz/e7zf0r3 Patented Augo 4, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE NEALEBERI-IART NEWMAN, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND FREDERICK ADOLPH NIEIVIANN,OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO FELT &; TARRANT MAN UFACTUR- INGCOMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS RECORD SHEETHOLDER FOR FACILITATING DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS Application filed April30,

' be made visible and the visible columns may This invention relates ingeneral to a device for holding record sheets for facilitatingdistribution of accounts and for facilitating computation from amultiplicity of separate similar record sheets, and more particularly tothe provision of an arrangement of record sheets and means formaintaining the sheets in such arrangement on a support therefortogether with a line guide common to all of the so arranged sheets,whereby a multiplicity of sheets each having a series of items ofsimilar character but bearing different significant indicia may bemaintained in previously arranged relation with respect to each otherand the items on all of said sheets having significant indicia in commonmay be selected and read with facility and precision.

Objects of the invention are to provide for removably holding a seriesof separate record sheets in parallel relationship on a support thereforand for maintaining'in substantially parallel relation to said series ofrecord sheets a line guide adapted for movement over all of the sheetsof the series of separate sheets so that items on all of said sheetshaving significant indicia in common may be selected and read in rowslengthwise of the series with facility and precision merely by movementof the line guide later ally of the series; to provide for maintainingthe line guide in position with respect to said support so that theguide may not be accident-ally canted from its parallel position withrespect to the series and will be positively held against movementlengthwise of the series; to provide a device whereby a series of sheetshaving two oppositely disposed parallel columns may be mounted inparallel relationship on a support during reading of items on saidsheets with said line guide and with each sheet overlapping a nextadjacent sheet to obscure. one of the columns of each overlapped sheetand with the obscured columnof each sheet of the same location relativeto those of the other sheets and whereby, upon reversal of lappedportions of adjacent sheets, the position of the sheets with respect tothe support may be the same but .the obscured columns may REISSUED 1929.Serial No. 359,310.

be obscured; to provide a device having the above noted advantages withsheets having between their respective sides a central folding lineextending from top to bottom of the sheet and having two parallelcolumns -on each portion on opposite sides of the line and then theother portion visible on said support without changing the position ofthe respective sheets with respect to the support; and the invention hasfor further objects such other advantages in construction and operationas may be found to obtain in the structure and device hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification andshowing, for purposes of exemplification, a preferred form and manner inwhich the invention trnay be embodied and practiced, but withoutlimiting the claimed invention speciflcally to such illustrativeinstance or instances: 7

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordance withthe invention for facilitating computation from a multiplicity ofseparate similar record sheets.

Fig. 2 is a. top plan view of the same with a multiplicity of recordsheets mounted thereon for purposes of computation.

Figs. 3 to 5 are views of various kinds of record sheets adapted for useon the device .of the present invention and for which the device showninFigs. 1 and 2 is particularly adapted to facilitate the computation ofitems on said record sheets, Figs. 3 and 4 showing twoportions of asheet each having two parallel columns on opposite sides of a severanceor folding line; and Fig. 5 showing another form of record sheet andalso the size and proportions of the portions of the sheets of Figs. 3and 4 in folded position or after being severed.

In its present embodiment, the invention is incorporated in a devicefor-use in computation of items on a calculating machine. Forconvenience the ensuing description will be directed to this use of theinvention. llhe novel features of the present invention are, however,.readily susceptible of other valuable application, for example, forpurposes other than computation on a calculating machine, hence theinvention is not confined to the specific use and specific embodimentherein described as an illustrative example.

Referring to the drawings there is shown a horizontally elongatedsupport or board 10 having a top adapted to maintain a series of recordsheets substantially level with each other. The support, 10 is providedwith two base members 11 at opposite parallel ends. 12 which serve tomaintain the support above the surface of a desk when positionedthereon. Mounted along the upper edge 13 of the support 10 and securedthereon at 14 is a longitudinally extending pin or pale carrying member15 having projecting upwardly therefrom a series of record sheet holdingmembers comprising equally spaced pins or impaling members 16 arrangedin a row thereon and adapted for removably holding a series of separatesimilar record sheets in parallel relationship, as shown in Fig. 2, onsaid support One of the oppositely disposed base members 11, in thepresent instance the member 17, is arranged to project beyond one of theoppositely disposed parallel ends 12 which end is advantageously formedso as to be perpendicular to the row of-pins or spindles 16; A pluralityof separate similar record sheets 18 are provided for use on saidsupport 10, each having its surface divided into two oppositely disposedparallel columns, 19, 20, respectively for items of similar characterand having a column 8 for difierent significant indicia opposite eachitem in the columns 19, 20 and having at its upper end an impalingopening 21 above each of said columns with the impaling openings 21 ofthe opposite columns 19', 20, spaced apart a distance equal to thedistance between the pins 16 on said support; The sheets 18 are mountedin parallel relation-' ship so as to be arranged in a row or series onsaid support with the pins 16 through said impaling openings 21 and witheach sheet 18 overlapping a next adjacent sheet 18 to obscure one of thecolumns (as shown in-Fig. 2, the columns 20) of each of the overlappedsheets and with the obscured column of each'sheet of the same locationrelative to those of all the other sheets of the series. Vihen somounted on the board, the impaling opening '21 above each column 20 ofeach sheet 18 and the impaling opening above each column 19 of anadjacent sheet are engaged by the same pin 16. With such arrangement ofpins and record sheets, when computation of items from columns 19 isfinished, the mere ame-so reversal of the lapped portions, by startingat one end of the row and lifting the lapped portions 19, 20, the firsttwo record sheets 0d of their pin 16 and placing the previouslyunderlapped portion over the previously overlapped portion and then backon their pin and continuing such operation on successive lapped portionssuccessively through the row, the respective sheets 18 may be maintainedin their respective positions or locations with respect to the board 10and to each other, and obscured columns 20 may be made visible and thevisible columns 20 may be obscured. To afford selection and reading ofthe items on all of the sheets so mounted on said support, that havesignificant indicia in common, with facility and precision, a line guide22 having a straight'edge 22' adapted to extend over all of the sheetson said support 10 is slidably mounted thereon for movement over all ofthesheets of the row laterally of the series of record sheet holdingmembers 16, that is, to and from the row of pins or impaling members 16.

A member 23 is attached to and movable with said line guide 22 andengages the perpendicular edge of the support 10 that is above the basemember 17 for purpose of maintaining said line guide in substantiallyparallel relation to the row of record-sheet holding members or seriesof pins 16. fhe member 23 is supported by the projecting portion of thebase 17 and is provided, in its underside, with a groove 23'," extendingsubstantially at. right angles to the line guide 22, into which a tongue24 on the base 17 extends for the purpose of maintaining said member 23and said line guide 22 in position with respect to the support 10 andthereby maintain the line guide 22 against canting from its parallelposition with re spect to the series of pins 16 and holding ries. 1

When"? it is desired to ascertain the aggregate amount of the sales madein a periodof time, forvinstance, one month, by a plurality of salesmenfor each of several departments, the aggregate cost of such sales andthe aggregate profit therefrom, and also, for instance, the total amountof the sales made by all such salesmen of all said departments, thetotal cost of said sales and the total profit therefrom, record sheets,such as are shown in Figs. 3 to 5, are provided having in the mediatecolumn 8 the department numbers arranged in predetermined order andhaving the sales for the respective departments noted in the column 19and the cost of such sales noted in the column 20 directly opposite theindicia that signifies the department for which such saleswere made.Such record sheets of all salesmen are then described, and a total incolumn 8. Then the line mounted on the support 10, as hereinabove recordsheet 27 having a mediate column 8 for the significant indicia and twooppositely disposed parallel columns, 19, for sales, and 20, for totalprofit, is mounted on the support 10 at one end of the series. The lineguide is then drawn to beneath the first of the indicia in the column 8of total record sheet 27, and the amounts of sales appearing above theguide read in a row across the series and accumulated on a calculatingmachine and the total of such reading marked in the column 19 oppositethe first of the indicia guide is slid laterally of the series tobeneath the second of the indicia in the column 8 of the total recordsheet and a similar reading, calculation and notation made, and so onthroughout all of the indicia in the column 8 of the total record sheet27. After all such readings, calculations and total notations are madethe columns 19 of all of the several sheets are read and calculatedindividually,

w and the totals noted beneath each of the several columns, thusindicating the total amount of the sales of each salesman and theaggregate total of all salesmen in column 19 of sheet 27. After suchcomputation the percentages may be computed and noted in the last row19. tions 19, 20 of the adjacent sheets are reversed ashereinabove-described and a similar reading and calculation of the costsof sales made for each department, but instead of noting the total costsopposite the indicia for the respective departments in the column 20,the total costs are subtracted on a calculating machine and thediiference, if there be a profit, is noted in the column 20.

As shown in Figs? 3 and 4, the record sheets each have between their twoopposite diate column sides 25 a central folding or severance line 26extending from top to'bottom of "the sheet and have the surface of eachof the portions on opposite sides of told 26 vided into two oppositelydisposed parallel columns 19, 20. Each sheet, as shown, has parallelhorizontal linese'xtending through all parallel columns and through theme- 8 between two of the columns 19, 20 on one side of the line 26 formarkings of significant indicia. I

When it is desired to make computations from a multiplicity of suchrecord sheets and to maintain sheets in the same position relative toeach other and to the support 10, they are first folded on the line 26-and then mounted on the support 10 in the manner hereinbefore describedwith first one side portion 28 visible and then, after 1 computationfrom items in both columns 19 and 20 by reversal of the lapper portions19 and 20 of adjacent sheets as hereinbefore set forth, with the otherside portion 29 Thereafter the lapper por-- visible on the support 10.Of course, should the portions 28 and 29 be severed instead of folded onthe line 26, the portions 28 and 29- may be mounted on the same pinswith the face of portion 29 to the back of portion 28, or vice versa,and after computation of portions 28 is finished the positions ofportions 28 and 29 may be reversed with respect to each other, that is,the face of portion 28 to the back of portion 29, and in this manner theposition of the sheets with respect to each other and to the support 10is maintained with certainty. Or, after being severed, the portions 28,29, face to back as described, the portions 28 only may be mounted and,

after computations have been made thereif it is desired not to mountfrom, then removed from the support and the portions 29 subsequentlymounted on the support for computation, with the results of thecomputations of respective significant indicia on each portion 28, 29,maintained in proper order with respect to the results of thecomputations of the respective significant indicia on the other.

From the foregoing description, clearly appears from Fig. 2, it isapparent that the. device of the invention provides in a simple mannerfor selection in rows and reading at a glance of items having the samesignificant indicia from a multi-' plicity of sheets each items ofsimilar character but bearing different significant indicia and arrangedin side-by-side relation, of a line guide over all the sheets of theseries in a direction laterally thereof.

The invention as hereinabove set forth is embodied in a particular formbut may be variously embodied within the scope of theclaims hereinaftermade;

We claim:

1. A record sheet; holder, comprising a backing support for amultiplicity of strips of paper having columns of numerical data,

means associated with said backing supportfor. engaging the ends of-saidstrips of paper to hold them in predetermined desired position and inshingled relationship on said backing support, and a'line guideextending across said multiplicity of strips positioned upon saidsupport to facilitate lateral reading and extension of items across saidmultiplicity of strips.

2. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support for amultiplicity of strips having a series of merely by movement and. as

of paper having columns of numerical data,

means associated with said backing support for engaging the'ends of saidstrips of paper to hold them in predetermined desired position and inshingled relationship on said backing support, and a line guideextending across said multiplicity of strips said support to facilitatepositioned upon lateral reading and extension of items across iso saidmultiplicity of strips, said strip holding means including parts forholding said strips in predetermined equally spaced and overlappingrelation to expose a single de- 5 sired column of data of each saidstrip.

3. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support adapted toreceive a multiplicity of strips of paper having columns. of numericaldata, a row of pins carried by said backingsupport for receiving theends of said strips to hold them in predetermined equally spacedshingled relationship across said backing support with c0l-, umnsexposed, and a line guide arrangeable across said strips and movablelengthwise thereof to facilitate lateral reading of items across saidplurality of strips.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

NEAL EBERHART NEWMAN.

FREDERICK ADOLPH NIEMANN.

